A former MP seeking re-election and a convicted paedophile have already
applied to Google to have details of their past removed from search results,
following a contentious European court ruling this week.

On Tuesday the European Court of Justice ruled that anyone will be able to
demand that information about them is removed from search engines enshrining
in law the “right to be forgotten”.

The rules have yet to be implemented but Google and other search engines have
already being inundated with requests from individuals hoping to erase web
links about them.

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